Scarce Resource Quotes

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

The only thing I don't have is enough time.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

The past is a finite resource.

Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is not their only scarce resource. They are also short on bandwidth. By bandwidth I mean basic cognitive resources - psychologists call them working memory and executive control - that we use in nearly every activity.

The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.

Loyalty is an asset, independent and scarce, parceled out among different contestants for power. No ruling government or non-ruling group enjoys absolute loyalty -- no contestant can have the whole pie.

To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of life. Therefore one of the most essential decisions any of us can make is about how one's time is allocated or invested.

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

All of the economic signals in the marketplace are essentially subsidizing the use of dirty fossil fuels and penalizing clean energy. There's really only one entity in society that can solve that problem, and that is government. And the air is a scarce resource.

The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you're optimizing.

By design, Bitcoin is a scarce resource with a predictable supply of new issuance. And it is this scarcity and predictable supply that make it so attractive as an underlying asset to bind to economic activity and trade.